Plasma on N810

[Jeffery MacEachern]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 06:04, John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 04 October 2010 12:33:16 Marco Martin wrote:
>> On Monday 04 October 2010, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
>> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 04:15, Artur de Souza <asouza at kde.org> wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Quoting Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern at gmail.com>:
>> > >> Has anyone tried running a recent version of Plasma on the N810 (under
>> > >> Maemo or MeeGo)?  Is it even feasible?  I've been wanting to use my
>> > >> N810 (affixed via car-mount to my equipment rack) as a sort of
>> > >> quick-glance dashboard, and Plasma's remote widgets would be an
>> > >> excellent fit, if I could get the requisite code running on it.
>> > >
>> > > Take a look at plasma-mobile as it should be "lighter" and more mobile
>> > > oriented than plasma-desktop.
>> >
>> > Thanks, I intended to.  I just hadn't seen any talk of Plasma of any
>> > sort running on a device that old as of late, and wanted to see if
>> > anyone had been poking at it before undertaking the poking myself. :)
>>
>> it's been quite a long time i built kde on the n810 (i think it was with Qt
>> 4.5) so it should have gotten a bit better (both in terms of Qt speed and
>> our fixes/optimizations in plasma) at the time  it did ran but was really
>> too slow to be usable
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marco Martin
>
> The problem I ran into when looking at it recently for an N800 is the Qt
> version required.  The final OS2008/Maemo Diablo version of Qt in the repos is
> Qt 4.5, which is not enough to build KDE SC 4.4 or later, so you would need to
> build your own version of Qt as well as many other libraries that KDE depends
> on.  You might have better luck investigating if the MeeGo skunkworks project
> for N810 is ready yet.

I thought as much, although I hadn't checked recently.  I'll take a
look at Meego - as long as I can get WiFi working, most of the rest
can wait.
Cheers,
 - Jeffery MacEachern

> John.
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